Thursday, October 30, 2008

Lizard in a Woman’s Skin


(1971) ****

Carol’s neighbor is a promiscuous tart who is always having loud wild parties. Carol is plagued by sexual dreams involving her neighbor.

One night Carol has a particularly vivid dream of murdering her neighbor. The next day her neighbor is discovered dead, murdered in the exact same circumstance as Carol’s dream. Did Carol really commit murder or was it just an elaborate set up?

Excellent Fulci film full of mystery and intrigue. The trippy dream sequence is something to behold. Again, he keeps you guessing throughout.

At first it seems it couldn’t possibly be anyone but Carol but as the story unfolds the suspects begin to line up. There’s a wonderful suspenseful scene where Carol is being pursued through an old church. This is definitely one of Fulci’s best films.

5 comments:

DKC said...

I remember Whirly reviewing this last year and it sounding really cool.

Catfreeek said...

Yeah, if you want a really nice introduction to Fulci this one or The Duckling one I previously reviewed are a couple of real classics.

Landshark said...

Hm, I have no idea who this Fulci is that you guys keep talking about. Gonna have to investigate!

Whirlygirl said...

Fulci rocks! Cat, that scene in the church is intense. Ennio Morricone’s score is fabulous in the entire film, but really shines in that scene. It’s the score that makes that scene half what it is.

Catfreeek said...

Yeah Whirly you're exactly right. Shame on me for not mentioning it.

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